Several well-publicized acts of violence by migrants in New York have unsettled some city leaders, but police statistics do not point toward a surge in crime.
I’ve had this conversation with a relative. Just look at how high crime is! Well, actually it’s rather low lately… well, it’s the migrants they are causing the problem! Sure, sure… and this is your number one concern for the future of the country over healthcare, education, and protecting our democratic process?
The rage bait content has a strong distorting effect on perception.
In the 1960s postmodernists theorised that in a sufficiently technologically advanced society, it becomes impossible to tell reality from the simulation of reality - the hyperreal you see on tv, social media, etc.
The sad fact is that for politicians reality is less real than the hyperreal. If crimes goes down in the real world it’s not necessarily that relevant, because voters will only vote accordingly if the simulated/mediatised version of reality shows crime as having gone down. The hyperreal has more real consequences and becomes part of public perception and even history. Reality often doesn’t. Real life events often only have real life consequences, if the simulation of reality presents them as having happened in the way they actually happened.
Further watching: Videodrome (1983), eXistenZ(1999), the Matrix (1999), Paprika (2006), Inception (2010), etc.
I’ve had this conversation with a relative. Just look at how high crime is! Well, actually it’s rather low lately… well, it’s the migrants they are causing the problem! Sure, sure… and this is your number one concern for the future of the country over healthcare, education, and protecting our democratic process?
The rage bait content has a strong distorting effect on perception.
Hyperreality.
In the 1960s postmodernists theorised that in a sufficiently technologically advanced society, it becomes impossible to tell reality from the simulation of reality - the hyperreal you see on tv, social media, etc.
The sad fact is that for politicians reality is less real than the hyperreal. If crimes goes down in the real world it’s not necessarily that relevant, because voters will only vote accordingly if the simulated/mediatised version of reality shows crime as having gone down. The hyperreal has more real consequences and becomes part of public perception and even history. Reality often doesn’t. Real life events often only have real life consequences, if the simulation of reality presents them as having happened in the way they actually happened.
Further watching: Videodrome (1983), eXistenZ(1999), the Matrix (1999), Paprika (2006), Inception (2010), etc.
Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time. I remember watching it as a teenager in the 90s and having no freaking clue what was going on.
Hypoxicreality
Crime is up 30% in New York City this year.